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Cynopsis
02.12.13

Good morning. It’s Tuesday, February 12 2013, and this is your first early morning briefing.

Tonight’s Special:
ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, BET.COM, Bloomberg TV, Centric, CNBC, CNN, C SPAN, FOX News, MSNBC: President Obama’s State of the Union Address 2013 (Live) at 9p
 
Tonight’s Premieres:
Oxygen: The Face at 9p (also premiering on Bravo and Style Network at 9p)
The Weather Channel: Reef Wranglers at 9p

Tonight’s Finales:
Discovery Channel: Africa at 10p
Food Network: Chopped Champions at 10p

Yesterday The CW handed early renewals to freshmen series Arrow as well as returning series The Vampire Diaries and Supernatural for the next fall season.  Arrow is the network’s best series debut since 2009 when it launched last October and currently ranks as CW’s most-watched series with 4.3 million weekly viewers.  The Vampire Diaries will be back for a 5th season while Supernatural notches its ninth season in the fall. 

Advertisers seeking the elusive demo of today’s young, modern men can reach them via the new Esquire Network, as of April 22, 2013. A rebrand of G4 through a strategic partnership between NBCUniversal and Hearst Magazines, “Esquire Network will give advertisers access to one of the most coveted and untapped audiences in the cable entertainment marketplace – the upwardly mobile, educated and highly-engaged man,” said Linda Yaccarino, President, Ad Sales at NBCUniversal. “We’re already in talks with key clients and developing fully integrated opportunities for them to align their brands with this hard to reach demo.”

NBCUniversal will own and operate the new network, which will be helmed by General Manager Adam Stotsky in tandem with David Granger, Editor in Chief of Esquire magazine.  The programming will expand on G4’s base of games, gears and gadgets and includes:

• A new original culinary competition series, Knife Fight, in development and executive produced by Drew Barrymore, Flower Films and Authentic Entertainment. Hosted by Top Chef winner Ilan Hall. 
• The Getaway (wt), executive produced by Anthony Bourdain and Zero Point Zero. The show highlights travel-loving personalities who take viewers to their favorite city in the world and reveal their top spots to eat, drink, shop and hang out. 
• G4’s fan-favorite competition series, American Ninja Warrior, which will return for a fifth season this summer and will also air on NBC.  
• NBC’s Parks and Recreation and the former STARZ series Party Down will join the festivities, too.

Based on the success of HGTV’s January premiere of Cousins on Call featuring real-life cousins and contractors Anthony Carrino and John Colaneri, the network approved Undercover Overhaul, a new series.  Production is underway on six one-hour episodes where Anthony and John demolish outdated, dysfunctional spaces and surprise neighborhood heroes with amazing renovations.  The series is slated to premiere this October.   New episodes of Cousins on Call air on HGTV every Wednesday at 8p. 

GMC TV is one of the only networks presenting original stage plays produced exclusively for television.  This Friday, GMC serves up the GMC World Premiere Play, “JD Lawrence’s Community Service” at 9p with an encore at 11p.  The play stars actor and playwright JD Lawrence in addition to Buddy Lewis, Drew Sidora, Clifton Powell and Terri J. Vaughn.  Written and directed by Lawrence, the comedic play is about a struggling Brooklyn actor and playwright (Lawrence) who would do almost anything to help a friend in need.  The play is produced by Swirl Films’ Eric Tomosunas. 

A third season of Food Network’s hidden camera series Restaurant Stakeout bows March 13 at 10p.  New York restaurateur Willie Degel is back using his covert surveillance techniques to show struggling restaurant owners what really happens when their employees think no one is watching. 

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and Starz forged a new multi-year deal that extends their exclusive first-run output premium pay TV deal.  As part of the agreement, Starz will have the exclusive pay television rights to Sony Pictures’ theatrical releases through 2021. Their previous agreement covered films released theatrically through 2016.  Sony Pictures’ films include titles from Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics, TriStar and Screen Gems. The updated SPE-Starz deal provides movie content for all Starz platforms including the linear STARZ and ENCORE channels in standard-def and HD, subscription VOD services in standard-def, HD On Demand and 3D On Demand and online streaming services, including the recently launched STARZ PLAY and ENCORE PLAY.  Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.  Sony titles coming in 2013 exclusive on pay television to the STARZ channels and services include The Amazing Spider-Man, 21 Jump Street, Zero Dark Thirty, The Vow, Men in Black 3 and Resident Evil: Retribution.

CBS and Amazon.com, Inc. revealed a content licensing agreement involving the new CBS series Under the Dome.  The deal establishes an exclusive in-season, online subscription-video-on-demand (SVOD) window for the show on Amazon’s Prime Instant Video service.  From Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television, Under the Dome is set to debut on CBS June 24.

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Singer/songwriter and actor John Legend is in business with USA Network on a drama series called The Edge as part of his exclusive production deal with Universal Cable Productions and his Get Lifted Film Co. The drama is about an idealistic Harvard Business School grad who joins a financial firm only to discover the company has dark secrets.  Justin Herber and Adam Hoff are writing partners on the project and will be EPs along with Legend and Get Lifted partners Mike Jackson and Ty Stiklorious. 

Syfy inked a deal to adapt Philip K. Dick’s Hugo Award-winning novel The Man In the High Castle into a four-hour miniseries.  Frank Spotnitz (The X Files) is on board as writer and EP.  Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions will produce the project with Headline Pictures, Electric Shepherd Productions and FremantleMedia International. Dick’s story depicts an alternate history where Nazi Germany and Japan were victorious in World War II. Stewart Mackinnon is also involved as producer with Scott.

Game show Minuto Para Ganar on MundoFox is moving production from Los Angles to New York City for season two. The series debuted last summer and has become one of MundoFox’s signature shows.  Shine Hispanic & Latin America produces the show with Adam Zuvich serving as EP and Marco Antonio Regil as host.  Casting for the second season is presently underway in the New York metro area.

NBC’s Dracula drama series has cast Thomas Kretschmann as professor Abraham Van Helsing and Oliver Jackson-Cohen is also joining the cast as Jonathan Harker, a journalist desperate to climb the ranks of aristocracy in this 1890s set drama thriller starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula.  NBC bypassed the traditional pilot stage for this series and ordered 10 episodes.

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Moderator: Mike Trudell: Lakers.com Beat Reporter & Sideline Reporter
Speakers:
Gabe Lozano: Co-Founder/CEO [LockerDome]
Susie Lokey: Sr. Director, Consumer Marketing [Golf Channel]
Caty Marzi: Manager, Social Media Business Development [NHL]
Kate Guerra: Social Media Manager [INDYCAR]

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Sunday’s telecast of the 55th Annual Grammy Awards on CBS delivered 28.37 million total viewers become the second largest audience for this awards event since 1993, according to Nielsen’s updated preliminary Live + Same Day ratings.  

Also on Sunday, the season 3B premiere of The Walking Dead on AMC at 9p attracted 12.3 million total viewers, a +51% increase over last year’s 2B premiere.  The 9p airing also delivered 7.7 million among A18-49, a +44% bump over last year’s season 2B debut.  Following at 10p, the season 3B premiere of Talking Dead drew 4.1 million total viewers and 2.7 million with A18-49, a +37% and a +396% boost respectively over last season’s 2B premiere.

Friday A18-49 Analysis:  Univision notched another win with the A18-49 viewers on Friday at 1.8/5, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen.  Univision’s Por Ella Soy Eva won at 8p with a 1.8/6 while the average of ABC’s comedies Last Man Standing and Malibu Country and NBC’s Dateline tied for #2 at 1.4/5 each.  Also this hour, CBS debuted The Job at 0.9/3 ranking 5th overall. Univision topped at 9p with Amores Verdaderos with a 2.0/6 and ABC’s Shark Tank was a couple paces away at 1.8/5.  Then at 10p, Univision pulled off a clean sweep of the night with Amor Bravio winning at 1.6/5 and CBS’ Blue Bloods just a tenth of a rating point behind at 1.5/5.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Friday, February 8, 2013 (February Sweep Day 8) time period averages.  Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.

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CBS: 5.3/9            The Job [p] 2.7/5, CSI: NY 6.0/10, Blue Bloods 7.2/12

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NBC: 4.4/7              Dateline Friday 4.8/8, Rock Center with Brian Williams 3.7/6

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ABC: 3.8/6              Last Man Standing 4.5/8, Malibu Country 3.9/6, Shark Tank 3.8/6, 20/20 3.4/6

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FOX: 2.3/4              Touch 2.5/4, Touch [r] 2.2/4

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UNIV: 2.1/4            Por Ella Soy Eva 2.1/4, Amores Verdaderos 2.3/4, Amor Bravio 2.0/3

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ION: 0.7/1              Cold Case 0.7/1, Cold Case 0.7/1, Cold Case 0.7/1

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TELE: 0.7/1             Pasion Prohibida 0.6/1, La Patrona 0.8/1, La Rostro Venganza 0.5/1

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CW: 0.6/1               Nikita 0.8/1, The Carrie Diaries [r] 0.4/1

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UMA: 0.4/1             Cineplex Fri [7p start] 0.4/1, Cineplex Fri [r] 0.4/1

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A18-49:  UNIV 1.8/5, ABC 1.5/5, NBC 1.4/4, CBS 1.3/4, FOX 1.0/3, TELE 0.5/2, CW 0.4/1, ION 0.3/1, UMA 0.3/1

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Several additions were announced in NBCUniversal’s ad sales organization.  Joining the company from Univision Communications is Laura Molen as EVP/Cable Advertising Sales to manage sales efforts for USA, Syfy, E!, G4, Chiller, Cloo and WWE, reporting directly to Linda Yaccarino, President/Sales.  Peter Lazarus is also joining NBCUniversal from USA Today as SVP/Cable Ad Sales over USA, Syfy, Cloo, Chiller and WWE and he reports to Molen.  Lou Koskovolis was appointed as SVP/Sales and Sales Marketing for NBC Sports Groups’ Golf Media in charge of all sales and sponsorship efforts involving the group’s golf properties including Golf Channel, Golf Channel on NBC and other digital platforms and events.  Koskovolis reports to Seth Winter, EVP, NBC Sports Group Sales & Sales Marketing.  Finally, Katie Larkin was added as SVP/Ad Sales Strategy where she reports directly to Trish Frohman, EVP/Ad Sales Strategy. Larkin joins from Turner Entertainment Networks (TBS, TNT, TRU) where she was SVP/Ad Sales Research & Strategy.

St. Paul-based Cordillera Communications hired Greg McAlister as President/GM of KRIS Communications in Corpus Christi, TX, starting March 11, 2013.  McAlister will head four Cordillera-owned stations  KRIS (NBC), KAJA (Telemundo), KDF (Independent) and The CW South Texas.  He will also oversee Cordillera’s shared services agreement with SagamoreHill Broadcasting LLC, owner of KZTV (CBS).

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This Day In History, sponsored by Destination America: Many celebrities share a birthday with President Abraham Lincoln (born in 1809) including Christina Ricci (1980); Josh Brolin (1968); Arsenio Hall (1956); Joanna Kerns (1953); and Lorne Greene (1915) to name just a few.

Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Filming for The Love Boat (1977-1987) was actually done on two cruise liners.  What was the name of the ship used consistently in the series? The Pacific Princess. Kudos to: David Williams-CTV/Knoxville, TN; Rick Rosenfelt-New York Jets LLC/Florham Park, NJ; Anthony Salerno-Horizon Media/NYC; Brad Stern-Mobileye Inc./Jericho, NY; Elizabeth Brown-The Kitchen Vixen/Santa Monica, CA; Suzanne Leichter-OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network/LA; Hank Hope-American Casinos & Entertainment Properties LLC/Las Vegas; Alan Perris-The Television Academy/North Hollywood.

Today’s Trivia Question – Valentine’s & Love-themed Shows Week: In the “I Love Lisa” episode of The Simpsons, Lisa takes pity on a classmate who receives no Valentines and quickly gives him one which, to her dismay, sparks his interest in her.  Which character is later spurned by Lisa in this episode? (Email [email protected] with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: Only the second four correct answers from each time zone will be mentioned; and once you’ve been mentioned in any of the Cynopsis editions, you can’t be mentioned again that calendar week.).

Later —
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02.12.13

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12, 2013

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ABC: The Taste, State of the Union 2013 (Live), Modern Family [r]
CBS: NCIS: Los Angeles, State of the Union 2013 (Live), Mike & Molly [r]
CW: When in Rome (2010)
FOX: Raising Hope [r], New Girl [r], State of the Union 2013 (Live)
ION: Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds
MyTV: House, House
NBC: Betty White’s Off Their Rockers, Betty White’s Off Their Rockers, State of the Union 2013 (Live)
PBS: Frontline, John D. Rockefeller: American Experience
Telemundo: Pasion Prohibida, La Patrona, El Rostro de la Venganza
UMA: Guerra, Asesino Solitario, Made in Cartagena, Rosario Tijeras?
Univision: Por Ella Soy Eva, Amores Verdaderos, Amor Bravio

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